Even watching in 2024 still is great 👍 This BBC television 📺 series is on my list of 14 all time best television series.my favourite character was Anna😊
mid 90s i was watching this in my family home, eagerly waiting to move out and start my own life. The spirit of the series made young urban life seem so exciting.
I watched this when I was 19…fell in love with it...haven't seen it since 1996/97….came back expecting it to have aged really badly…amazed at how excellent and compulsive it still seems to my 37 year old self. Well written, acted…..captured the zeitgeist really well...
Public smoking, no internet, texting or sexting or wetherspoons, John Major in power, offices full of paper, Diana still alive, David and Victoria Beckham and Jamie Oliver never heard of, curtains hairstyles, no hair straighteners or prosecco. Noel's House Party, Richard and Judy and Pebble Mill on TV. Jimmy Saville and Rolf Harris were deemed decent fellas. Ah those were the days.
Anna was a wonderful character. With her what you saw is what you got. She could be harsh but honest though. Milly was no ones' friend she was the dark mysterious type that never told you what she really thought.
Apparently, she claimed ageism in the industry for women. I always wondered as well, especially coming off the back of her fantastic performance as Anna. She appeared in a few high profile things afterwards(Reckless, Big Women and the film "Tube Tales").
TV series were just a job for actors and actresses back then. Lots of the older acting pros in modern day serials have been in countless TV serials since the 1980s and never became celebs.
